Learn English – Having an IV or being on a drip

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  1. I had an IV last night because my blood pressure dropped too low.
  2. I was given an IV (Fluids) last night…
  3. I was put on a drip last night…
  4. I got a drip last night…
  5. I was on a drip last night …
  6. They gave me a drip last night…
  7. I had a drip last night…
  8. My blood pressure dropped too low last night so they put me on a drip.

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Is the use of "IV or drip" correct in these sentences? what about the verbs?

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Drip (IV)

a method of slowly giving someone liquid medicine or food through a tube into one of their veins, or a piece of equipment for doing this:
He was on a drip for three days.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Best Answer

Numbers 1,2,3, and 8 sound perfectly alright to my native (British) ear.

I don't know if you are in America or Britain or elsewhere, but I would ask you to bear in mind that the word 'drip', in Britain anyway, has the further connotation of 'A stupid, feeble, or dull person; a fool; a bore - slang' (OED; it does not mark it as specifically British, so I am not sure if Americans use the word in that way.)

So saying something like 'I got a drip last night' could set up an unfortunate if unintended double entendre.

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